SEMESTRIAL PAPER
20p - granted
I. Read this passage about the great Hungarian composer, Bela Bartok, and answer the following questions:
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Bela Bartok was born in Hungary in 1881, the son of a director of an agricultural school. He
studied at the Conservatory in Budapest and wrote Concerto, The Miraculous Mandarin and the Kossuth
Overture which was performed in 1904 in England. He also wrote the Concerto for Violin for Sir Yehudi
Menuhin..
In 1905 he started to travel through Hungary, Slovakia and Romania to study folk music. He made
16,000 recordings of people playing and singing and became very interested in traditional Hungarian
instruments and melodies. He was also interested in all kinds of folk music. He returned to Budapest in
1908 and worked as a piano teacher at the Hungarian Academy of Music until 1934.
In 1940 he went to live in the United States because he did not agree with Nazism. He worked in
the US as a pianist. He died in 1945, a poor man, but he was a great composer and invented a new musical
language. Among his greatest works are the six great street quartets, the opera Bluebeard’s Castle (1911) as
well as several ballets like The Wooden Prince (1914-1916). His music is still performed and greatly
appreciated today.
1. Which of these two events happened first? Underline the one which happened first.
a) he composed a ballet/he started to teach the piano.
b) He wrote Bluebeard’s Castle/ he made recordings of folk music.
c) He wrote the Kossuth Overture/ he went to America
d) He became interested in Hungarian instruments/ he studied at the Conservatory
2. Here are eight statements about Bartok. Put a T if the answer is true, a F if the answer is false and ? if the
passage does not say.
a) Bartok was a good pianist.
b) He could sing traditional melodies.
c) His father was a teacher at the conservatory.
d) He wrote at least one opera.
e) He died in America.
f) He studied music in Hungary.
g) He died at the age of 65.
h) He loved Mozart’s music.
3. Find words in the passage that mean:
a) a person who is at the head of an organisation
b) something that makes a copy of a sound
c) a piece of music written for four instruments.
II. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line:
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THE POLICE LINE-UP
The main role of the police in criminal………investigations is to uncover CRIME
………………………(1)which will lead to a prosecution. Sometimes, this is in the EVIDENT
form of a ………………………….(2) of a culprit by an eye-witness. The police use DESCRIBE
this ………………………..(3)to track down a likely suspect, and then approach INFORM
people who have a similar …………………………..(4). They ask them to take part APPEAR
in a line-up.
The suspect and the other people line up in a room. The witness enters
with a policeman, and usually the suspect’s ……………………………(5). The LAW
witness must look ………………………………..(6) at each person and say who CARE
they saw committing the crime. Their ………………………(7)is extremely important. CHOOSE
If they don’t pick out the suspect, he may well be given his ………………………..(8) FREE
and the police will have to start the investigation again. The best………………………(9) ADVISE
for potential witnesses is to always tell the ………………………..(10), and only choose TRUE
someone if you are absolutely certain it was them you saw.
III. Do you see the teenage years as an age of happiness or as a difficult period of your life? Justify your
answer. (20-25 lines) (30p)
